 | Edward Conant - 1887 - 164 pages
...with a spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast At the bloody work they would look upon. (19) It was two by the village clock When he came to the bridge in Concord town. (20) He heard the bleating of the flock, And the twitter of birds among the trees, And felt the breath... | |
 | Samuel Silas Curry - 1888 - 456 pages
...him with a spectral glare, as if they already stood aghast at the bloody work they would look upon. It was two by the village clock when he came to the...safe and asleep in his bed who at the bridge would be tirst to fall, who that day would be lying dead, pierced by a British musket-ball. You know the rest,... | |
 | Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick - 1889 - 168 pages
...him with a spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast At the bloody work they would look upon. It was two by the village clock, When he came to the...the morning breeze Blowing over the meadows brown. 44 A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door. And a word that shall echo forevermore ! For, borne... | |
 | Mara Louise Pratt Chadwick - 1889 - 168 pages
...him with a spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast At tht bloody work they would look upon. It was two by the village clock, When he came to the...heard the bleating of the flock, And the twitter of bii'4s among the trees, And felt the breath of the morning breeze Blowing over the meadows brown. AMERICAN... | |
 | George Cary Eggleston - 1889 - 546 pages
...at him with spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast At the bloody work they would look upon. It was two by the village clock When he came to the bridge in Concord town, pauI "Revere's 'Ri&c 37 He heard the bleating of the flock, And the twitter of birds among the trees,... | |
 | 1890 - 144 pages
...them ! How at the touch of these, patriotism, like electricity, will thrill through your bones : " And one was safe and asleep in his bed, Who at the...that day would be lying dead. Pierced by a British musket ball." REVOLUTIONARY WAR. — January 20, 1776, Middlesex County was ordered to raise a regiment... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1890 - 304 pages
...meeting-house windows, blank and bare, Gaze at him with a spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast It was two by the village clock, When he came to the...Concord town. He heard the bleating of the flock, Ami the twitter of birds among the trees, And felt the breath of the morning breeze Blowing over the... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 458 pages
...him with a spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast At the bloody work they would look upon. It was two by the village clock When he came to the...bridge in Concord town. He heard the bleating of the flo'-k. And the twitter of birds among the trees, And felt the breath of the morning breeze Blowing... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1890 - 344 pages
...already stood aghast It was two by the village clock, When he came to the bridge in Concord town.1 He heard the bleating of the flock, And the twitter...birds among the trees, And felt the breath of the morning-breeze Blowing over the meadows brown. And one was safe and asleep in his bed Who at the bridge... | |
 | Mrs. Grace Townsend - 1890 - 640 pages
...him with a spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast At the bloody work they would look upon. It was two by the village clock When he came to the bridge in Concord town. He heard the bleeting of the flock, And the twitter of birds among the trees, And felt the breath of the morning... | |
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It was one by the village clock When he galloped into Lexington. He saw the gilded weathercock Swim in the moonlight as he passed, And the meeting-house windows, blank and bare, Gaze at him with a spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast At the... 
